On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 23:53 -0800, Michael Gherrity wrote: > Hi, > > I have read that the amount of money that a winning computer go > program would make in a go tournament is insignificant compared to the > amount of money that such a program would earn selling to the general > public. I have also read that the biggest pirates of computer software > come from Germany, the UK, and the US. The foreign exchange student we > are hosting from Beijing China said that most people in China do not > buy software, but download it for free off the net.
My first chess program only sold a few copies in Europe. But I came to find out that thousands of people had a copy of it. I met many people in Europe who said they had a copy and many of their friends did. Someone pointed me a site where you could download it for free. For some reason I believed that Europeans in general would be more honest about stuff like this and that we were "wild" and violent, they were more civilized (we have guns like you wouldn't believe, they have very few) etc. Maybe we are more violent but more honest too? But I know that as a culture we are not very honest either ... - Don > So what is true? > > mike > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > computer-go@computer-go.org > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
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